Fernando Meira wrote: > Ok, so running through that forum I decided to try out some of the > scripts to clean stale distfiles. > The first one (distcleaner-0.0.2) returned a lot of errors. The second > (distmaint.py) was too weird. Finally, (distclean.sh) seemed to be ok, > and freed 255 MB. I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the > emerge I end-up with 805Mb free. > > As you say Holly, this is far from enough if I want to compile > something big and also maybe for smaller apps. Which means that I have > a problem. > In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I > assumed that gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make > some modifications, redo my partitions. What I would like was to clean > once per all my windoz partition (9GB)... but from time to time I need > it.. unless I find a replacement to all the things I need from there. > > Anyway, thanks for the replies. > If someone has a nice script to maintain distfiles under control let > me know. ;) > > Cheers, > Fernando. >
Not a script, but I have some machines with /usr/portage NFS'd to a server (I'm thinking about doing the same with /var/tmp/portage/ also, but don't know how to lock it to avoid colisions). If you have a desktop, you can do the same, and also use distcc to accelerate the builds. Francisco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
